Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: C'Mon Get Happy!
Several years ago, Alex Ebert—the hard-partying lead singer of major-label power-pop group Ima Robot—broke up with his girlfriend... read more
Band Of The Week: Alberta Cross
Alberta Cross frontman Petter Ericson Stakee is the leavened product of a trans-national upbringing... read more
Catching Up With... The Books
Pairing minimalist musical composition with found-sound samples, The Books are masters at manipulating emotions... read more
Getting to Know... Cale Parks
Aloha percussionist Cale Parks has embraced the double-edged ideal of making music alone... read more
Why Genesis Deserves an Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Genesis is something of an ugly duckling to rock 'n' roll's more well-regarded swans. It's the sort of band that some reflexively sneer at, while others... read more
Salute Your Shorts: Wallace and Gromit
Begun while director Nick Park was still in college... read more
Vivian Girls: Love, Actually
"Everyone can relate to a love song, no matter how personal it is to the writer,” says Cassie Ramone... read more
Ken Burns Explores Our National Parks
Early in Ken Burns’ new mega-documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a mythic figure appears. At first, he isn’t named... read more
Getting to Know... Peasant
A couple of hours south of New York City, beyond the cornfields, cows and wildflowers of Eastern Pennsylvania... read more
Catching Up With... Rain Machine's Kyp Malone
The TV on the Radio guitarist talks about his new solo album, how his nine-year-old daughter critiques his work and what it was like for Stephen Colbert to touch his beard... read more
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Kick It Old School
As her fellow students at the Acland Burghley School in North London were looking for part-time jobs this summer... read more
Don't Fake the Folk: A Q&A With Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis
In 2004, Conor Oberst, M. Ward and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James opened a string of East Coast dates for Oberst’s band Bright Eyes... read more
Bloom Where You're Planted: Grey Gardens' Timeless Style
HBO's Emmy-winning Grey Gardens revisits the lives of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale... read more
Vote for Your Favorite Books of the Decade
Vote for your favorite Books published during the 2000s. Just list one to 10 books from the beginning of 2000 to the present in the comments section below... read more
Band of the Week: WHY?
Yoni Wolf has long been a remarkably prolific artist, his discography as WHY? littered with... read more
2009 Emmy Predictions
I've been watching a lot of television in preparation for the Paste Fall Guide to Good TV, coming this October. My TV overdose continues Sunday night when I'll be watching the Emmys. But before Neil Patrick Harris takes the stage, here are my 2009 Emmy Predictions.... read more
An Expert Fan's Guide to Pearl Jam's Bootlegs
Patrick Tang is about as big of a Pearl Jam fan as you’ll find, which is saying a lot, given the band’s rabid following... read more
Why So Serious?: One Writer's Mostly-Failed Attempt to Find Humor in the History of Pearl Jam
Through a rather tedious yet glaringly unscientific process, I've come to the conclusion that Pearl Jam is the least funny band working in the music business today. I don't mean that, as individuals, the band members personally lack senses of humor. They might. Or they might not. I don't know. But as a band, as a public entity in an entertainment industry increasingly defined by a certain ironic smirk and snark, Pearl Jam is largely impenetrable, un-make-fun-able. They just exist. They are what they are. And they don't need any cute quips or clever charms to convince anyone of their... read more
The Super-Impossible Brain-Busting Pearl Jam Trivia Quiz
Know the difference between Dave Abbruzzese and Matt Cameron? Can you name all the songs on Yield? Do you think of people with less than 25 Pearl Jam bootlegs as less-than-dedicated to the cause? Well, that's a start, but you'll need even more obscure PJ knowledge to conquer Paste's Super Impossible Brain-Busting Pearl Jam Trivia Quiz! Take it if you dare:... read more
All Those Yesterdays: Brendan O'Brien Reminisces on the Evolution of Pearl Jam and the Making of Backspacer
Brendan O'Brien is a record producer. He's actually kind of a big deal, as far as record producers go. If you've listened to alternative rock in the last 20 years, chances are you've heard his work. His credits including a veritable laundry list of monster acts, from Stone Temple Pilots to Bruce Springsteen, Mastodon to AC/DC, Incubus to Rage Against the Machine. But a band he's worked with as much as any is Pearl Jam. Returning to the studio with Eddie Vedder and Co. for the first time in 11 years, O'Brien produced the band's latest, Backspacer. And when Paste... read more
The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade…
The 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade
The 50 Best Albums of the Decade…
The 25 Best Movie Performances of the…
Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard
Kim Taylor - Days Like this
B.O.B. - Put Me On
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Moon Song
Punch Brothers - Punch Brothers at CMJ
Anya Marina - Whatever You Like
David Bazan - Hard To Be
